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REED ORGAN.

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REED ORGAN.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J AMES BAILLIE HAMILTON, OF IVORC ESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

REED-ORGAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,623, dated Gctober 12, 183 6,

Application filed April l, 1886. Serial No. 197,406. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Jl-urEs BAILLIE Haw ILTON, asuhject of the Queen of Great Britain, but residing at present in the city of \Vorcester, in the county of lVorcester, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have in vented a new and useful Improvement in Keyed Musical Instruments termed Reed Organs and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure l is atop view, Fig. 2 a bottom view, Fig. 3 afront elevation, Fig. 4 an end View, Fig. 5 a horizontal section, Fig. 6 a transverse sec tion, and 7 a longitudinal cross-section, of an organ soundboard ofiny invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

The said soundboard is for the use of pipes in conjunction. with reeds, it being so constructed as to enable each pipe to stand on or in a base fully equal to its requirements as regards caliber or diameter, and to have the passage leading from each reed-tongue to the mouth of the pipe uncontracted or even expanded, all the reeds being in one range, with each of them easily accessible for being tuned or manipulated, as circumstances from time to time may require.

In the drawings, A A, &c., denote a series or range of reed-chambers arranged side by side, each of them being open at its front. and closed at its rear end, and grooved in its up per part to receive a reed, B, which is slid horizontally into its chamber. There an air-induct, a,.through the bottom of each reedchan'iber, there being appliedto this induct a valve, C, provided with a spring, I), to force it upward. This valve, like others in reedorgans, is to he so connected with one of the keys of the series thereof as to be opened when such key depressed by a performer.

To the mouths of the several reedchambers there is a cover, D, that is hinged to the part 0, directly over such. chambers. Such cover is to enable access to the reeds and reedchamhers to be had, may be necessary from time to time, especially for the withdrawal or introduction of any of the reeds.

The series of reed-chambers has over and extending in rear of them, as represented, a shallow chamber, E, which in its top (I has several ranges of holes, five of such ranges being represented, those of each range in advance of the rearmost one being represented as having a diameter greater than those of the next preceding range. Into each of these holes an organ-pipe is to be inserted and closely titted, mouth downward. The holes of each. set or series, except the first or foremost one, open upward out of separate channels 0, formed within the chamber E, by partit-ionsf and g, arranged within it as represented. Each of such channels at its front opens into one of the reed-chamln rs The first or foremost range 0!. holes communicate with and are directly over vertical holes or passages 0, (see Figs. 5 and 6,) each of which opens into and extends upward from one ot' the reedchambers and directly over its reed. The chamber E increases in depth from its trout toward its rear part. The channelsleadingi'rom certain of the rcedchambers to the outermost or fifth range of holes have between them all the channels of the other ranges. Furthermore, each channel of each range, with the exception of the passages 6', increases in width and height from its trout to its rear end.. The partitions f extend in directions crosswise, while those marked 9 run in directions lengthwise, ot' the chamber E, all being as shown, in Fig. 5.

It will be seen from the drawings that whereas the recds are drawn up in line or in range, the pipes which aii'ect them will be draw ll in a column of successive ranks (five of which are here represented) by their receivingholes. The rank most remote from the rced-line is to hold the pipes of greatest diameter to which the longest channels lead. These channels form the actual stems of the pipes. The nextrank is to contain the next smaller pipes, and the next shorter channels areto lead to them, and so on through each rank until the reedline is reached. The front rank is directly over the reed-line, so that the high notes, which demand short pipes, have immediate access to the outer air through the first rank, whereas the low notes, which demand long channels and long pipes, have their requirements l'ulfilledin the rear rank.

Fig. 8 is a representation of the manner in which the channels e, leading from the reedchambers to the ranges of pipe-receiving holes, may be formed Within a solid plank or block, to be capped by a cover of wood like the cover (1, having such ranges made in it.

The above-described phalangal arrangement hers open at their front ends and there provided with a closing valve or cover, as described, with a series of channels leading from such reed-chambers to several ranges of holes formed r 5 in a board over such channels and varying in size or diameter, substantially as and for the of the pipe-receiving holes relatively to the purpose as specified.

JAMES BAILLIE HAMILTON. Witnesses:

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